OBJECTIVE:

Obtain a job, preferably in a Project Management or other Management or lead position, with a solid company who will take advantage of my overall experience.

SUMMARY:

40 years of Information Technology experience across a broad range of business, retail and manufacturing support areas. Including 15 years in management positions, along with 20+ combined years of programming, systems & business analysis and project management.

Professional Experience:

Mar. 2008 Present.
Project Manager. Managing Corporate Projects from an IT perspective using an in-house developed lifecycle gate check methodology called Cadence. Responsible for defining the project scope & budget, gaining the proper approvals and engaging the proper resources (both IT and business) in order to manage the project along with it\'s risks and issues, to a successful conclusion.

Projects Managed have been in the areas of:

• HR
• Time Entry / Badge system (Kronos Timeclocks and supporting applications)
• Legal
• Litigation Hold Implementation
• Real Estate & Store Development
• Replace companywide common CAD application
• Store Refrigeration Monitoring implementation
• Energy Management
• Energy Load Management
• Automated Natural Gas Telemetering
• General IT support
• Corporatewide Printer Replacement / Lease expirations

Sept.2002 Mar 2008.
IT Rersoruce Manager. Responsible for working with Project Managers & business area representatives to manage the assignments & workload of 30 to 40 IT associates. Assisting the associates in goal setting, career planning & promotional preparation. Including finding appropriate assignments and/or training that may assist them in filling gaps in their experience necessary to be promoted to the next level, or, depending on their career goals, to a position outside of their normal job family. Also responsible for semi annual performance reviews (mid year and year end) for each associate. Helped to develop and manage the career planning and promotional processes used by the IT department. Also, responsible for hiring and terminations for my group.

Feb. 1998 Sept 2002.
HR Systems Manager. Managed a team of 14 Information Technology professionals, 11 full-time and 3 consultants. Responsible for development and production support for the Benefits & HR modules of PDS Vista, the Albertsons Corporate HRMS System. Also responsible for production support of the new PeopleSoft HRMS system (Payroll, HR & Benefits Administration).

Sep. 1994 - Feb. 1998.
Sr. Business Analyst. Gathered and documented the requirements and external design for the EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) Purchase Orders that are transmitted electronically to suppliers. Played a key roll in planning and developing the requirements for, and execution of the integration testing for Procurement System interfaces to Legacy Systems. Coordinating with user representatives from both the operations and financial side of the company.
Deeply involved in the user acceptance testing and warehouse conversion and roll out.

Programmer Analyst. Responsible for support of the Student Loans Department for both day to day and long term needs. Providing ongoing support for the Student Loans Maintenance System, as well as to the Manager of the Student Loans office and his general needs for information gathering and reporting.

Also, serving as ongoing support and backup to the Financial Aid Department. Gathering, clarifying, and applying Federal Regulation changes to the Financial Aid Management System.

Confidentail,Mar. 1991 - Sep. 1992 (Left Co. due to major cutbacks volunteered for layoff)

Lead Analyst. Supporting the Human Resource Department at many levels (Project Leader, Systems Analyst, and/or Programmer) doing whatever needed to be done. Main area of involvement was coordinating the conversion of the Master Personnel System, EEO System, and Salary Evaluation System, from IMS to DB2 using a 4th Generation Programming Language called PACBASE.

Feb. 1984 - Mar. 1991
Supervisor, Business Systems Analysis. Supervising an average of 13 Programmers, Programmer/Analysts and Systems Analysts. As such, was responsible for work assignments, project status coordination, end user interface, day to day administration, project and manpower forecasting and performance appraisals. Also conducted new-hire interviews and provided input for Departmental budget preparation, and employee salary recommendations.

May 1982 - Feb. 1984
Systems Analyst. Supporting Manufacturing and Manufacturing Support Systems, i.e. Manufacturing Procedures, Inspection Plans, Industrial Hygiene, and Contract Proposal support etc. Duties included leading projects and programming as well as systems analysis.

Confidentail,Feb. 1977 - May 1982

Sr. Programmer Analyst. Responsible for designing, programming, testing, and generally coordinating the development of various computerized data processing systems, providing technical consultation to project managers and technical assistance to other programmers. Business areas supported included: Human Resources, District Court, Budget Administration, Payroll, and The Police Department.

Confidentail,May 1972 - Feb. 1977
Programmer. Working on development teams writing programs for special requests as well as production systems. Also performed maintenance programming in support of daily production problems.
Control Clerk. Responsible for setting up and controlling accounting, inventory, and manufacturing production system execution.
Computer Operator. Operating an IBM 360/30 DOS System. Also was involved in the DOS to OS conversion. Then, operating an IBM 370/145.